Adolf Hitler
Biography
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and the Holocaust. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich on 8–9 November 1923. Hitler was imprisoned for one year due to the failed coup, and wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (in English "My Struggle"), while imprisoned. After his release on 20 December 1924, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war, including the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, including an estimated six million Jews targeted in the Holocaust and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma, added to the Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. To avoid capture by Soviet forces, the two committed suicide less than two days later on 30 April 1945 and their corpses were burned.
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Movies (38)
The Rise of Germany’s New Right
as Self (Archival Footage)
2025
Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Christianity in the Third Reich
2025
Britain and the Blitz
2025
FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2024
Megalopolis
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2024
Do the Bush Thing
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Riefenstahl
as Self (archive footage)
2024
City of Toys
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Atomic People
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Commandant's Shadow
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Mussolini's Underground Refuge
2024
Hitler's Last Secret
2024
Churchill’s Forgotten War
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Bloody Hundredth
as Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)
2024
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Einstein and the Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
2024
God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2023
Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Mistake that Killed Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
2023
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
as Self (archive footage)
2023
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
as Self (archive footage)
2023
LOLA
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2023
Searching for Halifax NP711
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2023
The Hitler Home Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Hitler: The Making of a Monster
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Ponzán Network
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022
The March on Rome
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022
Amsterdam
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Prelúdio
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Christiane Lecocq: A Woman Laid Bare
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The American Führer
as Self (archive footage)
2022
TV Shows (12)
The Pope and the Führer - The Secret Vatican Files of World War II
2025
Sverige och kriget
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Dictator: The Hitler Interviews
2025
Apocalypse: D-Day
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Century of Icons
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Mussolini: The First Fascist
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Natsi-Saksa ja Suomi
as Self (archive footage)
2022
A History of Antisemitism
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022